Creative Responses

The creative response projects were really neat to watch last week. I will not remember who presented what, I know that’s horrible….but there were so many! I thought all were really creative, but a few really stood out in my opinion. I think Jaquinna’s presentation was well done. It was full of pathos. Just reading about the one dreamer who had lost her parents and still had a great positive attitude was really touching. Robert’s presentation made a very humorous/intelligent connection of the terms of rhetoric with the body’s anatomy. The presentation that contained sounds and voices that were supposed to represent what went on in the mind of sufferers was really cool to hear. Being as technologically illiterate as I am, it would have taken me months to figure out how to work all the sounds and voice overs. Emily’s was another project packed with pathos. Seeing all the Holocaust victims on the one side of the fence, with the guards on the other side was really a good representation of the power the Nazis had over the Jews. I thought the project that distorted reality television was incredible. I would never think to twist the shows the way she did. Seeing the swans represented as beautiful before the makeover, but ugly after was a really representation of what the media is doing to society. I think this project was a pretty good idea because it helped us to experiment with rhetoric in all kinds of forms. Through songs- boy Kevin, you sure are a creative drunk J, poems, slide shows, and models, it shows us rhetoric is out there everywhere, in all shapes and forms.